Words matter. These are the best Monopoly Quotes from famous people such as Kevin Plank, Burt Rutan, Naomi Wolf, Steven Wright, John Landgraf, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I love Monopoly. You know why? When I play Monopoly with you, I’m going to buy everything from Baltic Avenue to Marvin Gardens. If you get to my side of the board, you’d better roll boxcars, or you’re going to pay rent.
NASA’s myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation.
There was a bad patch in the ’80s and early ’90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had developed a series of litmus tests.
I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.
I think it would be bad for storytellers in general if one company was able to seize a 40-50-60% share in storytelling. I don’t think monopoly market shares are good for society, and I think they’d be particularly bad for society and storytellers if they were achieved in the storytelling genre.
Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
Anybody whose film becomes a hit is a superstar. Today there is somebody, and tomorrow there will be somebody else. No single woman or man has a monopoly for all time.
Extremism is no more the monopoly of Islam than it is the monopoly of other religions, including Christianity.
It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world.
I don’t know that the Brits have the monopoly on being organized, but they do have a way of working with which I’m familiar. It’s not necessarily the best way, but it’s a way.
As a scientist and successful businessman, I understand that no one has a monopoly on good ideas.
I don’t believe any more that WBC has a monopoly on truth.
With Bitcoin, no one has a monopoly of information.
When Limbaugh entered the world of talk radio, the AM dial was essentially moribund. He turned it into a weapon for conservatism, and in the process, led the revolution that has ended in the disintegration of the old media monopoly.
Some sectors have a monopoly position, and football certainly does. If I am dissatisfied with my football club’s facilities or the players on the pitch, I’m not about to go and purchase my season ticket from the club down the road. That loyalty should be treasured and not taken for granted.
There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire. If you’re jealous of those with more money, don’t just sit there and complain – do something to make more money yourself.
The principle of building an economy without foreign monopoly capital has become a principle which, for us, is no longer subject to amendment.
People, who accused me of practising a monopoly were wrong. The media fuelled rumours about my ‘monopoly.’ The first question I was always asked during interviews was about my supposed monopoly.
There is no doubt at all that the government monopoly over the insurance business had to end. There is a crying need for better service, more innovation, and a comprehensive insurance cover.
The power’s in the people, more so because we have platforms that we can control, like Instagram, Twitter, Soundcloud, where we can deliver straight. If you’re building a fanbase, it’s in your hands; it’s not monopoly. You can do it.
I’m very happy to say goodbye to the three-button suits. I hate three-button suits. Some people can pull them off, but they’re legitimately really, really skinny. Unfortunately, the only people who actually wear them are, like, Mr. Monopoly, and people like that.
I do not believe that any particular religion has any monopoly on salvation.
WWE is basically scooping up all the talent and making it really difficult. They say they want competition and like competition, but I don’t believe that. They are trying to make this a monopoly.
Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.
Even the alternative weekly newspapers, traditionally a bastion of progressive thought and analysis, have been bought by a monopoly franchise and made a predictable shift to the right in their coverage of local news.
No one country has a team that hold a monopoly on the league like Maccabi does in Israel.
Microsoft’s intentions must be judged by Microsoft’s actions, not Microsoft’s words. Their actions speak plainly enough: they are working to turn today’s open-PC ecosystem into a closed, Microsoft-controlled distribution and commerce monopoly.
Anyone who thinks they have a monopoly on truth, and there is only one way to see the world, always gets us into trouble.
Facebook is a known behemoth corporate monopoly. It has exposed at least 87 million people’s data, enabled foreign propaganda and perpetuated discrimination. We shouldn’t be begging for Facebook’s endorsement of laws, or for Mark Zuckerberg’s promises of self-regulation.
Homophobia is not the monopoly of any one country, culture, or religion.
I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom.
Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man’s rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.
Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.
In the 1920s, Wall Street was a world that was really dominated by professional speculators and stock pools. These people had a monopoly over information.
They will come to learn in the end, at their own expense, that it is better to endure competition for rich customers than to be invested with monopoly over impoverished customers.
If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.
A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.
The scientific and scholarly community is marked by the belief that the truth is to be found in all; none can claim it as their monopoly.
Amazon is not a monopoly or a monopsony, and even if it were, that by itself isn’t illegal.
The thing about a real economy is that it actually is like the game of Monopoly in the sense that when one person has all the money, the game is over. And in a game of Monopoly, of course, that’s quite charming, but in a real economy, it’s much more problematic.
One size doesn’t fit all, and I don’t have a monopoly over good ideas.
I think that when you talk to people about Monopoly, they love talking about their memories associated with it. And for me, I’m the same way. I mean, when I think about Monopoly, I think of my family playing at the holidays.
When science tries to resolve its conflicts by adding and subtracting dimensions to the Universe like houses on a Monopoly board, we need to examine our dogmas.
When you get to know a lot of people, you make a great discovery. You find that no one group has a monopoly on looks, brains, goodness or anything else. It takes all the people – black and white, Catholic, Jewish and Protestant, recent immigrants and Mayflower descendants – to make up America.
Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good – for society, and not just for monopoly holders.
So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands.
The core of my platform is to change the role of money in politics, support public education and break up monopoly power. All of these are fundamental prerequisites to a responsive democracy.
My dad has been in the fight against monopoly since it wasn’t so cool. I’m sure I’ve turned to the subject to please him, though I think he might consider some of my arguments a little flamethrowing for his tastes.
Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.
We don’t have a monopoly. Anyone who wants to dig a well without a Hughes bit can always use a pick and shovel.
When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it’s picking the winners in the competition.
A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.
I’m writing a book called ‘The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus’ about the maths of Christmas: how to set up a secret Santa so it’s totally fair; how to decorate your tree mathematically; how to win at Monopoly.
Domination and monopoly is the name of the game in the web marketplace.
Competition is always a good thing. It forces us to do our best. A monopoly renders people complacent and satisfied with mediocrity.
I thrive in competitive environments. I’ve never been in a monopoly.
No civilisation can claim to have a monopoly on universal values and no one can claim to be always faithful to his own values.
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